transportation
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Sound Strategies for Sustainable
Communities
Transportation
Transportation planning and policy can
contribute to community sustainability in a variety of ways, including
techniques such as context-sensitive design, transit-oriented
development, and scenic byway development and management.
We can help communities ensure
that transportation facilities are assets that provide for mobility and
safety but also complement local character and maximize smart growth
principles.
Our transportation work includes publications on transit-oriented development and context-sensitive
design, policy and program
development, and facilitating community workshops.
Context
sensitive design
is an approach that considers a transportation improvement project in
its
total context. CSD is a collaborative, interdisciplinary approach that
involves all stakeholders to develop a highway, road, bridge, or other
transportation facility that is compatible with its physical setting
and preserves scenic, aesthetic, historic, and environmental resources
while maintaining safety and mobility.
Transit-oriented
development
focuses on the creation of compact, walkable, mixed-use communities
with easy access to mass transit choices. TOD emphasizes the creation
of mass transit facilities that also embrace pedestrian- and
bicycle-friendly design and a mix of office, residential, retail, and
civic/institutional uses in a concentrated area, thus reducing
automobile dependence.
Scenic byway designations offer
many communities a unique opportunity to coordinate transportation and land use planning. Typically, land use
choices are a local matter
while transportation planning is more likely to be addressed at the
state level. However, the development and management of a designated
scenic byway can broaden the role of communities in ensuring that
transportation investments are compatible with local land use goals.
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Publications
- Co-author,
Ten Principles of
Transit-Oriented Development. Urban Land Institute, Washington,
DC .
- Author, Getting It Right in the Right-of-Way:
Citizen Participation in Context-Sensitive Highway Design.
Scenic America, Washington, DC .
- Author, Route 90 Scenic Byway Nomination for
the Cayuga County Planning Dept., Auburn, NY.
- Executive
Producer, The Pleasure of a Lakefront
View: Pursuing Scenic Byway Designation for the Cayuga Lake Scenic Byway.
(video, 13 min.) Ithaca-Tompkins County Transportation Council, Ithaca,
NY.
Workshops
and Presentations
- Instructor,
New
Opportunities with the National Scenic Byways Program.
ASLA Distance
Learning Course. American Society of Landscape Architects
- Presenter,
Highlights of the National
Scenic Byways Program. Kennett Pike Preservation Committee,
Greenville, Delaware.
- Presenter,
Opportunities with Scenic
Byway Designation for the Dalton Highway. North Slope Borough
Council, Barrow, Alaska.
- Presenter,
Building Greenway
Partnerships: Linking with Scenic Byways. Pennsylvania Greenways
Commission quarterly meeting, State College, PA.
- Presenter,
National Scenic Byways
Program Regional Workshops, Denver, CO ; Smuggler’s Notch, VT ;
and Nashville, TN.
- Presenter,
Making the Most of the
Laurel Highlands Scenic Byway. Mountain Laurel Chamber of
Commerce, Donegal, PA.
- Presenter,
Virginia Scenic Byways and
the National Scenic Byways Program. Scenic Virginia Annual
Meeting, Richmond, Virginia.
- Presenter,
Scenic
Route 90. Scenic Route 90
Nomination Presentation. For the New York State Scenic Byway
Advisory Committee, Albany, NY.
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